iTattooed

iTattooed

last night

after you slammed

the door

and everywhere fell

silent and un-living 

i started to count

every breath

in case i’d died

when i went to bed

it was with 

the ghost of you

i had such despairing dreams

of dragons and daggers

and hearts ripped in two

that i was so afraid

i wrote your name

on every teardrop

and wrote

until the morning 

when i awoke with sadness

tattooed forever 

on my face